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- Ramberg, Joacim, 1977-
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Focus on Special Educational Support in Swedish High Schools : Provision within or outside the students' regular classes?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Marginalization Processes across Different Settings. - Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - 9781527503298
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a society that increasingly requires educational skills, academic success is fundamental to overcoming social exclusion and marginalization. The longer a child stays in school and the more opportunities he/she gets to finish high school education, the better chances he/she gets to be included in the labor market and also become a participating member of a democratic society (Includ-ED 2006). The Include-ED report highlights that there is a relationship between academic success and social inclusion, which means that schools themselves must be inclusive institutions that can provide opportunities for learning for all students. Inclusive institutions can be described in many ways and on many levels. However, one important factor that is decisive for inclusive education is where the educational support is provided (Includ-ED 2006).This chapter focuses on how special educational support is organized in Swedish high schools, and especially where the special educational support is provided, by the schools’ special educational professionals and other school staff, including how these issues are related to marginalization processes. Most research within the field of special education in Swedish high schools, targets specific schools and/or specific programs. This study is a contrast in that it covers all Swedish high schools and the data focused on here builds on 764 schools.The chapter starts with a brief description of the Swedish high school education system and policy documents appropriate to special education.This is followed by a section which focuses on the concepts of marginalization, social exclusion, social inclusion and dropout. Then the results are presented and discussed in relation to previous research.
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- Westling Allodi, Mara, 1959-
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Särskilt stöd i den svenska skolan och internationellt - en jämförande analys av policy och praktik för specialpedagogiska insatser och särskilt stöd
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Specialpedagogisk policy och praktik i nio olika utbildningssystem har analyserats av en grupp studenter på Stockholms universitet som deltog i kursen Områdesöversikt över internationell forskning inom specialpedagogikunder hösten 2015. Dessa analyser är publicerade i Working paper 2. Ett uppdrag från 2015 års Skolkommissionen var att beskriva modeller förtidiga insatser och särskilt stöd från olika utbildningssystem. I denna text identifieras några systembland dessa exempel som verkar fördelaktiga och deras organisation av utbildning och specialpedagogik jämförs med den svenska. En översikt av specialpedagogikens historiska rötter används för att reflektera över några utmaningar som alltjämt är närvarande i den svenska kontexten kring specialpedagogik, inclusion och särskilt stöd.
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- Allodi, Mara, 1959-
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Specialpedagogiska insatser internationellt och i det svenska utbildningssystemet
- 2017
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Ingår i: Dyslexi. - 1401-2480. ; 1, s. 6-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Tillsammans med studenter i mastersprogrammet genomfördes en analys av specialpedagogiskt stöd i några utbildningssystem som var möjliga att jämföra med det svenska systemet och som verkade framgångsrika eller åtminstone intressanta. Från en jämförelse av dessa olika modeller identifieras några komponenter som jag föreslår att vi skulle inspireras av för att kunna genomföra mer effektiva specialpedagogiska insatser i det svenska skolsystemet. En undersökning av vad som görs i andra sammanhang kan göra det tydligare för oss vad det är som saknas i specialpedagogisk praxis och ge indikationer om vilka uppfattningar som ligger bakom dessa val.
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- Westling Allodi, Mara, 1959-, et al.
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"Språket - det tar lite tid att lära sig" : Utvärdering av försöksverksamhet gällande 105 timmar extra undervisning i svenska eller svenska som andraspråk
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapporten i detta Working Paper redovisar resultat från en utvärdering som genomfördes 2014-2015 på uppdrag av Skolverket, av försöksverksamheten med extraundervisning i svenska/svenska som andra språk. En bakgrundsbeskrivning presenteras av hur mottagandet av nyanlända har organiserats i det svenska skolsystemet. Studien presenterar beskrivningar och analyser från nio fallstudier baserade på dokumentation, observationer, intervjuer med 55 lärare, rektorer och ansvariga på utbildningsförvaltning, intervjuer med 38 elever och enkätsvar från 87 lärare. Rapporten visar att mottagande av nyanlända och extraundervisningen organiseras på olika sätt i dessa kommuner och att denna organisation är komplicerad och i några fall föränderlig. Innehållet och organisationen av extraundervisningen varierade. Det statliga bidraget ersatte inte alla kostnader för verksamheten i vissa fall. Lärarnas uppfattning överlag var att extraundervisningen hade flera positiva effekter. De intervjuade eleverna uppskattade möjligheten att få mer schemalagd undervisning med meningsfullt innehåll och tyckte att de kunde lära sig snabbare det svenska språket med denna förstärkning. Därför kan det anses vara problematiskt att inte alla nyanlända elever får ta del av denna extra satsning som extraundervisningen innebär.
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- Adams Lyngbäck, Liz, 1966-, et al.
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Becoming established : a gendered educational effort for learning Swedish
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Not knowing Swedish or being a native speaker of Swedish is posed as a problem related to and exacerbating disabilities (SPSM om flerspråkighet). In 2017, the political debate in Sweden lifted the problem of how the immigrant stay- at-home- mother phenomenon was hindering newly arrived women from entering the work force due to what is portrayed as their lack of Swedish skills. Language plurality in this respect is posed as a weakness rather than a resource (Hyltenstam & Milani, 2012). These women are still largely seen “as workers rather than human beings with equal rights” (Skutnabb-Kangas & Phillipson, 1996). There is a general assumption that knowing the target language is paramount in becoming established in society which involves paying taxes. Non-governmental integration efforts draw on these types of descriptions when applying for funding.Swedish with Baby is an NGO initiative focusing on organizing group meetings for parents with small children with different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. The activities build on the idea of a combined language and baby café which are educational initiatives where language users with small children devote time to conversation practice with native speakers in the target language. The objective is described as promoting parents towards becoming established in society by learning to speak Swedish through language role models.We have conducted a year-long fieldwork project in Swedish with Baby with the aim of exploring aspects about language and belonging in families in migration contexts. In this presentation, we will discuss how the very ideas of what is being aimed for, Swedish language knowledge, undermines inclusion.We examine our findings in terms of how social justice is linked to tacit, unspoken policy objectives about what counts as appropriate language goals for groups seen as marginalized or in need of being de-marginalized through integration efforts. The groups most disadvantaged by language policies are girls and women, ethnic minority groups and social minority groups (Corson, 1993).In our research findings, it became evident that for many of the first-generation immigrants the goal of learning Swedish is secondary or unimportant. A large part of this group expresses that they are attending Swedish with Baby to meet other parents of small children and to exchange ideas on questions and thoughts which have come about through their new role as parents. This is regardless of how much or how little Swedish they previously knew. In fact, most of the parents in this group were communicatively competent in Swedish.Situations where not knowing Swedish was described as disabling was in their everyday living, not in looking for employment. The experience of being limited by language had to do with their children, from choosing preschools, schools, contacts with health care and especially if their child was not able to communicate with other children. Our results indicate that the idea of language as a skill for getting a job is missing the mark on what language learners need to actually be successful: a sense of community through social engagement.
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- Adams Lyngbäck, Liz, 1966-
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Dis/ability literacy through parenting
- 2017
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Ingår i: Abstract book.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation introduces qualities of a social literacy in deaf and disability contexts through parenting a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. Following a social justice education framework on privilege studies, social literacies and allyship (Adams & Bell, L.A. & Griffin, P., 2007; DiAngelo, 2012; Evans & Wall, 1991; Evans, Assadi, & Herriott, 2005; Kimmel & Ferber, 2014; Ong-Dean, 2009; Sensoy & DiAngelo, 2012), this collection of qualities held by parents has been compiled from examining empirical material based on the first-person perspective of 19 parents against the background of their related networks of social encounters of everyday life. This analysis departs from examples found of a development process in parenting based on lived, in-depth experiences of disability and uncertainty which enable individuals to exhibit ways of understanding and engaging as allies to individuals and groups who are deaf and hard of hearing. Through contact with other parents in sensorial differentness, awareness, actions and commitments to goals of more inclusive and equal conditions for the child and others like the child are enacted. Dis/ability literacy is characterized by being able to identify with others who have similar experiences in other types of differentness leading to insight about disability in their relationships. Developing these social literacy qualities is a way parents exhibited perspective-changing through ‘unlearning’ and can be summarized as being interested, concerned, obligated, aware of needs, and willing to accommodate. Important issues to be discussed are the social literacy potentials of uncertainty and the betterment of social relations between individuals and groups in sensorial differentness, building on a care ethic.
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- Adams Lyngbäck, Liz, et al.
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Is development even desirable from a disability perspective? Two proposals for replacing ableist assumptions and forming development practices on what works for people with disabilities
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Eliminating the social exclusion of individuals with disabilities and disregard for their human rights continues to be the primary objective of Disability Studies. Disability remains marginalized at all levels in development work from policy to relief efforts (Grech & Soldatic, 2016). Only 5% of overseas development assistance funds are allocated to disability projects and programs and efforts consistently bypass people with disabilities (Ridell, 2010; Grech, 2015). Eliminating ableism in development we are argue must be counteracted in a two-fold approach through theorizing centered on education processes.The first is to confront the arguments for dismissing disability as “someone else’s concern” (Grech & Soldatic, 2016) which furthers its invisibility. We propose that programs to increase the disability literacy of policy makers and development workers must be implemented in all development projects just as gender education has been. This major step would serve to increase awareness of what perpetuates disability inequality in development efforts. The second area addresses the lack of disability informed development work. By designing a research project using qualitative social science research methods, the lived reality of people with disabilities will be foregrounded with particular focus on their educational needs on their own terms.These two areas draw on critical works in disability studies in education and intergenerational and comparative perspectives on quality inclusive education in a social justice in education framework (Adams Lyngbäck, 2016, Gani Dutt, 2017). This presentation will outline the pending fieldwork on the educational provisions for children with disabilities in locations throughout India in order to contextually inform joint development programs. This will be carried out through newly established cooperation efforts between Stockholm University and higher education and research institutions in India, (The Institute for Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, New Delhi) and in Nepal, (Kathmandu University). The ground work will be laid for addressing how disability inclusive development needs not only to be rethought but reenacted by making disability equality one of the central concerns in sustainable development implementation.
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- Adams Lyngbäck, Liz, 1966-
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The role of uncertainty in the development of disability literacy : drawing on examples of processes of becoming in parenting a deaf child
- 2018
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Ingår i: Lancaster Disability Studies Conference. - Lancaster : Lancaster University. ; , s. 22-22
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper will explore the role of uncertainty in parenting in spaces of sensorial differentness which envelopes the relationship between a hearing parent and a deaf child. This process of transformation, a becoming process in an adult life builds on coming to know about life conditions of another individual. Lived, in-depth experiences of disability and uncertainty are what seem to enable parents to adopt alternative attitudes going against societal norms and values about what it means to have a disability. They make choices based on how they imagine their adult child’s future belonging and identity. The analysis builds on the findings from the ethnographic material in a study on parenting children who use cochlear implants. Qualities certain parents exhibited and others were in the process of developing are the examples used to show how uncertainty is involved in ‘unlearning’, an orientation which allows new insights about disability and being deaf to guide decisions and actions. It will be argued that this social learning process does not end in complete knowledge but rather as a way of becoming disability literate which can increase and recede because of how it involves the minds and lives of others. Parents continue arriving as they continue ‘reading their child’, continuous arrivals which imbue their interactions with groups like their child. The frameworks of disability studies in education and social justice in education drawing on care ethics will serve to employ the term allyship to present how following the paths others formed can be studied to develop one’s own disability literacy. The presentation will include an example of an online program being developed to facilitate communication and understanding between hearing people and people who are deaf or hard of hearing in order to increase awareness, actions and commitment to goals of more inclusive and equal conditions.
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